After the madding crowds on Black Friday thin, Saturday will offer the opportunity to go more low-key and local in looking for the right gift. Small Business Saturday, the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, runs counter to better-known shopping days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — A 40-year-old Iron Mountain man was arrested Wednesday night after police received a complaint he had discharged a shotgun several times in the area of Park Ridge Mobile Home Park. It was reported about 11:43 p.m. that the man, who was intoxicated, left in a car while still ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is seeking a final $630 million budget bill before he leaves office, proposing to spend more to repair roads, address water contamination and hire 246 additional child protective services caseworkers following a scathing audit. The state ...
FELCH TOWNSHIP — The North Dickinson County School District will finish the year almost $300,000 in the black, better than expected, a district official said. A recent audit showed the district was able to add another $60,587 to its general fund, raising the total to $278,145, which ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — Forest Park Schools recently participated in their annual school-wide Your Forest, Your Future event. The mission is to give students the opportunity to experience and study school forests and the industries that depend on them, in order to better understand and ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin legislator who doubles as a firefighter ripped the state Department of Natural Resources for persuading his department to rescue a deer stranded on a frozen lake, saying the agency put them at risk over a “stupid deer.” Republican Rep. Adam Jarchow ...
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge’s office fielded angry phone calls after callers mistook him for a federal judge who restored CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s access to the White House. Bay County District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly was out of the office Nov. 16 when U.S. District ...
MARQUETTE — WJMN-TV Channel 3, the CBS affiliate that services Marquette and the surrounding area, will move frequencies Friday, Nov. 30, which means those who watch TV for free with an antenna will need to go through the rescan process. As part of the Federal Communications Commission’s ...
KALKASKA — A Marquette man is dead as the result of a two-vehicle accident that occurred Monday on U.S. 131 near Wood Road in downstate Kalkaska County. Jerel Michael-Douglas Glenn, 29, died after the Chevrolet Impala he was driving southbound on U.S. 131 veered across the centerline into ...
MARQUETTE — A Republic man who became lost Tuesday night in a wooded area of Republic Township was found safe by searchers after he placed a 911 call to the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office. Gary Waterman, 64, who was hiking north of Chief Lake Road, called to report his dilemma at about ...
MARQUETTE — Four Marquette County men have been arrested for distribution of methamphetamine, the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team reported. On Nov. 16, UPSET detectives arrested Zya Ray Fassbender of Marquette, Corin Renee Hurst of Ishpeming, Christopher Francis Larson of ...
MARQUETTE — Favorable hunting conditions such as snow and cooler temperatures are keeping the white-tail deer moving during the firearm season so far, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported. The DNR reported numbers at all western Upper Peninsula stations are up, while ...
Families preparing for the Thanksgiving feast should have found better prices in the grocery store, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Washington, D.C.-based agency’s 33rd annual survey of classic Thanksgiving dinner items calculated the average cost of supplies to feed ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Local clerks are balking at Republican plans to move Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential primary, saying it would create so many headaches it would be impossible to implement. Two elections are currently scheduled for spring 2020 — a February primary for conservative ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people on Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, which has sickened 32 people in 11 states and 18 ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — There will be no paper Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. All Daily News offices will close at 4 p.m. today and remain closed Thursday for Thanksgiving. The Circulation Department will provide telephone assistance until 5:30 p.m. today. Normal office hours will resume Friday.
MARQUETTE — A Republic man who became lost Tuesday night in a wooded area of Republic Township was found safe by searchers after he placed a 911 call to the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office. Gary Waterman, 64, who was hiking north of Chief Lake Road, called to report his dilemma at about ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters killed thousands more deer on the opening weekend of this year’s nine-day gun hunt than in 2017. Department of Natural Resources data shows hunters killed 118,670 deer, up nearly 13 percent from last year. The higher total comes despite fewer hunters in the ...
The Nature of Dickinson County 2019 calendars to benefit education programs at the Dickinson Conservation District are now on sale throughout the county. Calendars feature beautiful images from the Conservation District’s photo contest winners. Pictured is a northern lights photo by Amy ...
The Norway High School Youth Advisory Committee sponsored a month-long campaign to raise money for breast cancer awareness at Norway-Vulcan Area Schools. Throughout the month, the students sold navy/white/pink “#Uknighted Together” cancer awareness T-shirts, “Cancer Sucks” suckers, and ...